Genesis 32:2
Context32:2 When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, 1 “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim. 2
Genesis 32:2
Context32:2 When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, 3 “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim. 4
Genesis 2:8
Context2:8 The Lord God planted an orchard 5 in the east, 6 in Eden; 7 and there he placed the man he had formed. 8
Genesis 17:24
Context17:24 Now Abraham was 99 years old 9 when he was circumcised; 10
Genesis 17:27
Context17:27 All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.
[32:2] 1 tn Heb “and Jacob said when he saw them.”
[32:2] 2 sn The name Mahanaim apparently means “two camps.” Perhaps the two camps were those of God and of Jacob.
[32:2] 3 tn Heb “and Jacob said when he saw them.”
[32:2] 4 sn The name Mahanaim apparently means “two camps.” Perhaps the two camps were those of God and of Jacob.
[2:8] 5 tn Traditionally “garden,” but the subsequent description of this “garden” makes it clear that it is an orchard of fruit trees.
[2:8] 6 tn Heb “from the east” or “off east.”
[2:8] 7 sn The name Eden (עֵדֶן, ’eden) means “pleasure” in Hebrew.
[2:8] 8 tn The perfect verbal form here requires the past perfect translation since it describes an event that preceded the event described in the main clause.
[17:24] 9 tn Heb “the son of ninety-nine years.”
[17:24] 10 tn Heb “circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin” (also in v. 25).